Species: The Awakening (2007) Movie Review, Trailer and Poster

USA 2007
Director: Nick Lyon
Cast: Helena Mattsson, Ben Cross, Dominic Keating, Marco Bacuzzi, Adam Wylie, Marlene Favela, Meagen Fay, Roger Cudney
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Release Date: 2 October 2007
Running Time: 1 hour 38 minutes

The Movie Review

Back in 1995, there's something refreshing came up in the movie business, the beautiful Natasha Henstridge headlined one of the most rented VCD and DVD titled Species. Afterwards of course, several sequels followed, with Species II in year 1998 then Species III in 2004 and now after 12 years, Species IV: The Awakening shows up. Hopefully after a dozen years, the audience expects to see some real entertainment, viewed from Species kind of movie, that is. I have to say Species IV: The Awakening is not a scene better than its predecessors.

The gorgeous 22-year old Helena Mattsson, who is born in Sweden, is now headlining as the Species. Helena roles as Miranda Hollander, a college professor who is still living with his uncle Tom (Ben Cross). After an accident, Miranda is put into a local hospital only to wake up as the Species and killing


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the staffs at that hospital. Tom rushes in and gets the unconscious Miranda to safety. After revealing to the shocked Miranda that she is actually half-human and half-alien. They decide to leave their home for Mexico in order to meet Forbes (Dominic Keating), the only one Tom believes could cure Miranda from her cursed secret. Time is also running out for Miranda as she more and more becomes something that she never want to be, the creature who eager to mate with human males to produce more and more aliens.

Species IV has an in-depth dive into the drama field just like the previous entries, it's not a bad thing for the Species series since the previous entries relies too heavily on the violence and has an onion skin thin storyline. Thus by developing drama between the character we could get more sympathized and definitely made me enjoy the film more.

But that's regrettably only the first half of the movie, because at the end half, the storyline becomes an incoherent mess, it begins to be more guessable thus become another species that belong to the "Uninteresting Family". Lucky for the fans if you could catch it aired by Sci-Fi channel just like Species III (usually aired on Saturday Night), so you could at least see the latest entry in the Species installment. But for other Moviegoers, hmmm Saturday night and don't have a date, probably you could give it a go, otherwise I myself would even prefer to watch Alien vs. Predator: Requiem.

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